Sentence examples for the underlying law from inspiring English sources

However, the underlying law has not been substantially amended at the national level for years.

The Democrats noted that the underlying law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, would remain in force.

This is not the kind of prosecutorial zeal we need when the underlying law is far from clear.

The problem was not the underlying law, Mr. Lockyer said, but the lawyers who were taking advantage of it.

But the underlying law in Riegel required pre-emption, in so many words; in the jargon, it involved "express pre-emption".

Karl Wilding, director of public policy at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, which represents charities, said the language issued by the commission was more "hawkish" than the underlying law.

And, if it is, what answer will it offer to another of Einstein's questions: "Did God have any choice in the creation of the world?" Is our universe -- and the physical laws that govern it -- the unique outcome of a fundamental theory, or are the underlying laws more "permissive," in the sense that they could allow other very different universes as well?

Most of the underlying laws behind such occurrences can only be understood on the basis of the theory of Markov chains.

So, besides the correlation between metabolite levels and effective treatment (which is an unpatentable natural law), there is nothing "inventive" about the test developed by Prometheus; really they were just trying to patent an underlying law of nature.

On the contrary, "its underlying laws reveal a beauty, a symmetry and economy which are capable of moving scientists to tears".

Musser notes that Geoffrey Chew's attack on the notion of underlying laws in physics "was radical, and radicalism went over well in '60's-era Berkeley".